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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you people prattling on about the Ivy League -[b] you realize it's an just an athletic  conference[/b], right?  You're no different on the gun-totin' rednecks down south (at whom you no doubt look down your noses) who woudl only let their kids go to an SEC school.  [/quote]
I think you're missing the point.  I suspect that for most people, it's not that they are hellbent on children actually attending an Ivy; instead people are looking for ways to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different high schools.  One measure of a high school is how well its grads do in college placement.  People look as Ivy admissions as an easy proxy for how the school as a whole does in college placement.  [/quote]

??? ummm, actually though the Ivy League is an athletic conference, the particular group of schools referred to as "Ivy" do have other commonalities: they are private( do not rely on state funds/ think state budget cuts) , very selective in admission, and have HUGE endowments which allow them to offer lots of FA to kids who qualify. Their endowments ( Harvard's is ?  500 Billion also allow them to attract top faculty by offering funded chairs of certain departments, guest lecturers who are leaders in their field, engage in leading scientific research, on and on. Their medical schools, which attract the best and brightest, staff teaching hospitals ( Mass General, Boston Children's, Penn, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, [b]Packard Children's/Stanford Medical Center [/b], etc.. with the best and brigtest doctors to provide medical care to low income people who would not have this access otherwise.

Just to name a few things that set the [b]Ivy'[/b]s apart.[/quote]

Do they also teach you (i) that Stanford is not in the Ivy League, and (ii) the proper use of an apostrophe?  [/quote]

Don't blame them, I went to public school.[/quote]

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